Debbie McGowan is an award-winning author of contemporary fiction that celebrates life, love and relationships in all their diversity. Since the publication in 2004 of her debut novel, Champagne - based on a stage show co-written and co-produced with her husband - she has published a further thirty-five works (twenty novels, fifteen short stories and novellas). She is the author of two ongoing series: Hiding Behind The Couch (a literary 'soap opera' centring on the lives of nine long-term... Read More

Published: 1st July, 2012
Length: 113,000 words (358 pages) approx.

[Hiding Behind The Couch Series: Book One]

The Circle.
Nine friends from high school.
Nine friends for life.

They had been in their final years of school when it happened. There was a party. Shaunna didn't know who he was; she could only vaguely remember where she'd been and what she'd been up to, and tried to let the memory slip away with the hangover. Four weeks later, she was certain that night was going to be with her forever.

Josh Sandison has spent his lifetime trying to keep his friends together, never forgiving himself for being the one to push George away. Now in their thirties, they reunite in a bid to help Shaunna's daughter establish her father's identity.

But there are secrets and lies that have been lived too long, with the power to destroy friendships for good.


The series to date:
Beginnings (Novella)
Ruminations (Novel)
Class-A (Short Story)
Hiding Behind The Couch (Season One)
No Time Like The Present (Season Two)
The Harder They Fall (Season Three)
Crying in the Rain (Novel)
First Christmas (Novella)
In The Stars Part I: Capricorn-Gemini (Season Four)
Breaking Waves (Novella)
Chain of Secrets (Novella)
In The Stars Part II: Cancer-Sagittarius (Season Five)
A Midnight Clear (Novella)
Red Hot Christmas (Novella)
Breakfast at Cordelia's Aquarium (Short Story)
Two By Two (Season Six)
Hiding Out (Novella - crossover with CHO)
Those Jeffries Boys (Novel)
The WAG and The Scoundrel (Gray Fisher #1)
Reunions (Season Seven)

• So Long, Little Black Diamonds
• The Making Of Us (Checking Him Out #4)
• Checking Him Out Box Set One
• Reunions (HBTC #7)
• Of The Bauble
• Take A Chance Anthology: A Collection of Gay Romance for New Adults
• Class-A (Hiding Behind The Couch)
• The WAG and The Scoundrel (Gray Fisher #1)
• And The Walls Came Tumbling Down
• Those Jeffries Boys (HBTC Novel)
• Hiding Behind The Couch Box Set One
• Love Unlocked
• Chain of Secrets (HBTC Novella)
• Christmas Craic and Mistletoe (Seeds of Tyrone #3)
• Checking In (Checking Him Out #3)
• Where the Grass is Greener (Seeds of Tyrone #2)
• Taking Him On (Checking Him Out #2)
• When Skies Have Fallen
• Leaving Flowers (Seeds of Tyrone #1)
• Breakfast at Cordelia's Aquarium (HBTC Short Story)
• Two By Two (HBTC #6)
• Hiding Out (Checking Him Out / HBTC Novella)
• Cherry Pop Valentine
• Ruminations (HBTC Novel)
• Coming Up
• Checking Him Out For The Holidays (Checking Him Out Novella)
• Red Hot Christmas (HBTC Novella)
• A Midnight Clear (HBTC Novella)
• Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday Anthology
• Crying in the Rain (HBTC Novel)
• Sugar and Sawdust
• Checking Him Out (Checking Him Out #1)
• Breaking Waves (HBTC Novella)
• In The Stars Part II: Cancer-Sagittarius (HBTC #5)
• Champagne
• In The Stars Part I: Capricorn-Gemini (HBTC #4)
• Double Six
• First Christmas (HBTC Novella)
• The Harder They Fall (HBTC #3)
• Beginnings (HBTC Novella)
• No Time Like The Present (HBTC #2)
• No Dice
• Time to Go (in Story Salon Big Book of Stories)